I'd love to say that I didn't "get" the new biotech-thriller "Splice" and that's why I didn't like it but I did get it and it didn't help. The film has been labeled a "horror" film by many but the flick wasn't scary and the only things that were horrorrific were the terrible decisions made my the main characters and the abandoned farm house locale. The film was basically "Little Shop of Horrors" without the musical numbers, a more topical being (the cloned Dren replacing Audrey II), and a more obvious undercurrent about parenting. The movie was just bad. It wasn't scary, the characters were nearly impossible to sympathize with, the dialogue was hokey. Just a shake your head and walk out of the theater type flick

More disappointing was that one of my ideas for a horror film was KIND OF done in a trailer before the film. The pretty lousy looking "Chain Letter" has people getting, you guess it, chain letters and dying. My idea is people getting texts that (and here's how it's different from One Missed Call or Chain Letter) say that if the recipient doesn't kill someone in 2 hours, they'll be killed themselves. I haven't really plotted out the idea at all but I like the idea of a slasher film in which anyone could be the slasher. Part of me was thinking of it as a web series since it would have many different angles. One version is someone trying to decide whether they should kill or not. Another is someone trying to figure out who sent it before the time runs out. And a third could be everyone paranoid about who got the latest text and not trusting anyone. I think it could be pretty cool but because I haven't even figured out the best medium for the idea, I haven't been able to outline it yet. I might try it after I get done the first drafts of my superhero pilot and my reality TV musical.

And while the ideas are similar, I think I could be able to come up with something better than this looks. (And this is more of a rip-off of "The Ring" than "One Missed Call")